Nevada County picayune., 1887-03-23

silver question and the civil ser vice question, ne would say that no man in all the history of the government had held the office of president who was more conscien. ! tiOus, more honest and more thor. oughly devoted to the interest of tue whole people than Grover Cleveland, In case l,e should be the nominee of the party in the next race, and the signs of the times point in that direction, Sena. tor Berry said that he would sup port him with hearty good will. Speaking of the river and horbor bill, he paid high compliment to his colleague, Senator Jones. He said: Among all the friends of that measure no man worked hard CT or more diligently-wrote more letters, visited the departments more frequently, or kept up the fight more boldly than did my hon. Ored colleague, anc I am gratiiicd to say that the entire ArkansaS delegation were a unit on the u,,cs tiOn.n
 He called attention to one fact which ought to make tho people oI Arkansas appreciate the efforts ol our senator's --that no other seln. tors succeeded in getting all ap propriation while ours Ob tained anincrease of S25,OW on the appropriation for Arkansas rivers.
 He referred briefly to the bill which Senator Hoar will introduce pcxt session. the purpose of which was to start the outrage mill and destroy local self government, and said that every Democrat true to home rule and local self govern ment would stand firmly against it. r.a#..... st..
 Closing, he referred to the length of time he had been in the service of the State, period c"veri,i. fifteen years. and said that it had been his highest ambition to serve. with honesty aud fidelity, the peo- pie who had honOred him so high iy. His address made a fine i'm pression.
 HON. T. ( MRAE
 At the conclusion of Senator Berry's remarks Hon. TIC. Me Rae was loudly called for, and after repeated calls came forward and made brief address. It was true, he said. that all the pledges made to the people had not been kept by the congress just closed. but considering the vast and diy ersc interest of this great countryside antagonisms and jaring interests of widely separated sections con sessions had to be made. and, ta- ken as a whole, the country would be well pleased with the results. While We had listened to dUlcful predictions that the country would go To ruin by d change in the ad- mimstratiOn. the fact remained that the transfer of power mad been attended with no disaster and every interest of the people had been sacredly guarded. Our splendid institutions have stood tho severest test to which any government can be subjected and our form ot government. the admi ration of the whole world, still grows and strengthens in the affcc- tiOns of the people. He believed the tariff question would be settled ere long. It took fifteen years to settle that great issue, the railroad question. Once let this great is. sue come home to the people. let every man know and realize the great truth that he Is personally aud individually interested in the tariff and we shall soon have an adjustment. He spoke at length on the work of congress. and closed by paying high compli. ment to the legislature on the good work done for the State. He was frequently applauded.- Ar kansas Democrat, March l6th.